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You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

Barry Manilow

Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Believe Everybody Find
I keep reading about people who want to be famous – it’s not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.
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People Reading Stupid
My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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Country Great Style World
First of all, I’ve been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn’t write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
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Running Song Writing
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Enough Long Proof
There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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Awesome City Country Quiet
Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they’re full of muscle. ‘Copacabana’ sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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Song Years Yesterday
My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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Goal Happening Involved
I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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Hungry Ideas Strong
We’ve made mistakes, But we’ve made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can’t come true? Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve, Another night like all the rest.
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Friend Good Mistake New Year
I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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Musician Passion Path
These days, with ‘American Idol’ and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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Idols Moving Reality
Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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Always Choices Hands Involved Music Passion
I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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Love Music Opportunity
The public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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Cancer Knows Needs
If I Should Love Again’ – I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn’t a single and people didn’t really know about it, but it’s a beautiful song and that’s part of what I’m loving.
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Beautiful Song Writing

You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

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You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

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